Drive growth with automated NFV solution packages
Increase your business agility
Leveraging network functions virtualization (NFV) helps you lower costs, increase operational efficiency, and monetize new services. F5’s prepackaged, preconfigured NFV solutions simplify the deployment and management of your virtualized network.
Explore NFV solution packages
Gi LAN VNF service
Gi Firewall VNF service
DNS VNF Service
DNS Security VNF Service
CGNAT VNF Services
Standalone F5 VNF Manager
Gi LAN VNF service
The virtualized Gi LAN solution provides solutions such as virtual policy enforcement, TCP and ABR video optimization, virtual firewall, and virtual CGNAT. Virtual solutions enable you to dynamically chain together services based on real-time subscriber and application awareness. This model means you can deliver services based on current network conditions and use network resources more efficiently, allowing you to innovate, improve subscriber QoE, and lower costs. The package can be purchased in capacity-based throughput options of 5, 10, and 50 Gbps increments, which greatly simplifies network planning, sizing, and purchasing. This solution includes the F5 VNF Manager.
Gi Firewall VNF service
Defend your core network infrastructure and mobile subscribers from attacks with a high-performance, highly scalable ICSA Labs Certified full-proxy firewall. Deploy the Gi Firewall VNF Service with CGNAT to detect and stop large-scale DDoS. The package can be purchased in capacity-based throughput options of 5, 10, and 50 Gbps increments, which greatly simplifies network planning, sizing and purchasing. This solution includes the F5 VNF Manager.
DNS VNF Service
The virtualized DNS solution is a hyper-scale and secure DNS solution that provides faster web browsing and reduced latency with high-performance DNS caching and resolving. This improves subscribers’ user experience, leading to reduced churn and increased revenues.
The package can be purchased in increments of 500,000 and 2,000,000 Queries per Second (QPS). This solution includes the F5 VNF Manager.
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DNS Security VNF Service
The virtualized DNS security solution provides a high-performance DNS DDoS mitigation solution with built-in protocol validation to automatically drop high-volume UDP, DNS query, NXDOMAIN floods, and malformed packets. DNS firewall services absorb attack traffic and Response Policy Zones (RPZ) block access to malicious IP traffic domains. Real- time DNSSEC protect LDNS servers from cache poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks.
The package can be purchased in increments of 250,000, 500,000, and 2,000,000 QPS. This solution includes the F5 VNF Manager.
CGNAT VNF Services
Manage IPv4 address allocation and IPv6 migration, enable network scalability for expanded services (e.g., IoT) and new 5G use cases, and ensure applications are addressable through ALG’s—for SIP, ICMP, H.323, etc.—with a low-cost solution. The package can be purchased in capacity-based throughput options of 5, 10, and 50 Gbps increments, which greatly simplifies network planning, sizing, and purchasing. This solution includes the F5 VNF Manager.
Standalone F5 VNF Manager
Automate the lifecycle of F5 NFV solutions without the need for a third-party vendor. Management functionality allows you to consolidate and manage your virtual services, automatically scale capacity requirements, and implement lifecycle management to support rapid spin-up and spin-down of services. Through REST APIs, the F5 VNF Manager is compatible with third-party orchestrators.
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Simplicity, Velocity, Scale
Get all the benefits of an automated, virtualized network.
The future is now. In this paper by Heavy Reading principal analyst Jim Hodges, learn how easier programmable capabilities can help you deliver exactly the resources applications demand—and get best practices for innovating within this flexible, capacity-based model.
OPTIMIZE YOUR APPROACH TO SCALING VNF SERVICES
Jim Hodges, Principal Analyst at Heavy Reading, and F5 Solution Architect James Thomson discuss the ways service providers are moving past planning and managing VNF instances to deliver true service management.
Ways to buy
Consolidate and simplify procurement with flexible cloud licensing models that fit your business.
Perpetual licensing
The Gi LAN VNF and Gi Firewall VNF solution packages are both available via annual subscription in 5G, 10G, and 50G throughput options. The DNS VNF and the DNS Security VNF solution packages can be purchased in increments of 500,000 and 2,000,000 Queries per Second (QPS) DNS VNF solution, and a 250,000, 500,000 and 2,000,000 QPS DNS Security VNF solution.
Subscription
The Gi LAN VNF and Gi Firewall VNF solution packages are both available via annual subscription in 5G, 10G, and 50G throughput options. The DNS VNF and the DNS Security VNF solution packages can be purchased in increments of 500,000 and 2,000,000 Queries per Second (QPS) DNS VNF solution, and a 250,000, 500,000 and 2,000,000 QPS DNS Security VNF solution.
Build your own solution
You can architect a custom solution from individual BIG-IP Virtual Editions and then purchase a perpetual license for VNF Manager for <50, 50+, or 500+ devices.
Use before you buy
After initial purchase, you can simplify further purchases, seamlessly scale as you grow, and reduce the need for overprovisioning and for capacity forecasting with the use-before-you-buy feature, which is included with all NFV packaged solutions.
Service Provider Essentials
Service providers are different. You have some of the biggest and most complex challenges in the communications world today. At F5, we don’t just understand the challenges you face, many of us have lived them ourselves. That’s why we developed the F5 Service Provider Essentials technical services program: to offer a specialized level of support for—and exclusively available to—our SP customers.
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